Bringing together literatures on play, (video) games, and alter(native) geopolitics this paper explores how digital games offer playful encounters that challenge popular understandings of geopolitics. While geographical scholarship has exposed the ways video promote geopolitical militaristic cultures, concentrates disruptive qualities play. More specifically, focuses This War Mine (2014), a gam...

Laïcité, France’s idiosyncratic religious neutrality, is a concept that governs significant aspects of daily life while being notoriously variable in its application. Alongside sociological, legal and historical understandings laïcité, I propose an additional way to view laïcité: through critical geopolitical perspective. argue laïcité has been made unmade geographic imaginaries practices which...